Colored memories : a biographer's quest for the elusive Lester A. Walton /

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Author / Creator:	Curtis, Susan, 1956-
Imprint:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Walton, Lester A., -- 1882-1965. Walton, Lester A., -- 1882-1965. African Americans -- Biography. African American journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. Theater critics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies. Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies. Biography -- Research -- United States -- Case studies. African American journalists. African Americans. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans -- Race identity. Biography -- Research. Intellectual life. Memory -- Social aspects. Race relations. Theater critics. New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. United States -- Race relations -- Case studies. New York (State) -- New York. United States. Electronic books. Biographies. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11217217

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ISBN:	9780826266293 0826266290 9780826217868 0826217869
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"Explores the life of African American Lester A. Walton whose illustrious career spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century but who is now forgotten. Curtis explores the failure of collective memory and America's obsession with race as she explains how she discovered Walton and his place in history"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Curtis, Susan, 1956- Colored memories. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008

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